Archaeologists fight developers VERACRUZ, Mexico (AP) - With a real estate development in the works, archaeologists are fighting for a chance to study a site they say could provide clues to the fate of a famed ancient culture along the Gulf of Mexico. The site, now just a cluster of dirt-covered mounds called El Dorado, is in the 200-acre Mandinga mangrove swamp along the Jamapa River, just 13 miles south of the port of Veracruz. The Mandinga Swamp Promotion and Construction company had started draining the swamp and parceling it to create a luxury housing project with a marina when the government's National Anthropology and History Institute discovered the plan in November. The institute got injunctions to stop construction and has been negotiating with the developer over ways to save the site. See full story <http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559842623-dae>
